LSU - fatigue and lack of motivation

(Posted on 11/18/12 at 11:23 am)

It's hard to get up for Ole Miss. They are irrelevant and yet pesky enough to keep up. It's a bad combination when a team like LSU or A&M is playing to preserve their ranking/season more than anything else.

Our 2nd half defensive performance, though not perfect, was much better because it mattered. Our D is tired and the team isn't motivated right now because of a meandering season with limited possibilities.

I hate sounding a bit negative but I really think this is what it is. I hope Miles does his magic again and fires them up.

re: LSU - fatigue and lack of motivation (Posted on 11/18/12 at 4:00 pm to siliconvalleytiger)

quote:Our 2nd half defensive performance, though not perfect, was much better because it mattered. Our D is tired and the team isn't motivated right now because of a meandering season with limited possibilities.

Remember those ankle weights folks used to fasten to their ankles for conditioning. Looked like our DB's were wearing them most of the first half.

Webbles were constantly running by and past us. Heck, there were four instances I can recall where they had us completely beaten deep where their QB simply overthrew or underthrew the ball in addition to the several he did hit.

I couldn't understand it.

But in Ole Piss's last 3 series other than the 37 yard completion, our D finally played as we reasonably had a right to expect.

quote:Every year under Les that we're out of the SEC or national championship race, the team(especially defense) plays flat the rest of the way and sometimes drops a game. Look at 08, 09, 10.

that'll have a tendency to happen when you've recruited a team full of players who are National Championship caliber tallents.

As Ego tweeted before the Bama game. "This is the reason we decided to come here."

When you've done all that work to win championships, I'm sure its tough as hell to play out the string and finish the season with the same level of intensity, especially when the team hadn't played a game without the SEC or NCG on the line since like 2009 before the State game.

re: LSU - fatigue and lack of motivation (Posted on 11/18/12 at 4:06 pm to siliconvalleytiger)

Nobody gives a shite about old piss on the LSU end. But I know some old piss alums that would give their left kidney to beat LSU. It's the nature of the beast. They get up for the LSU game like it's the BCS championship. LSU treats them like they're SW Oklahoma St.

re: LSU - fatigue and lack of motivation (Posted on 11/18/12 at 4:09 pm to siliconvalleytiger)

crowd was never even close to a factor in the game with the exception of a few drives in the second half... no use of the LSU home field advantage never helps either.... regardless we looked flat on Def for a while